Friday, 15 February 2013

Dead Romantic - CJ Skuse; Review.

Book
Details:

Paperback: 352
pages

Publisher: Chicken
House; 1 edition (4 Feb 2013)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1908435410

ISBN-13: 978-1908435415

Summary:

Camille
wants to find the perfect boy, with an athlete's body and a poet's brain. But
when she's mocked at a college party, she knows there isn't a boy alive who'll
ever measure up. Enter Zoe, her brilliant but strange best friend, who takes
biology homework to a whole new level. She can create Camille's dream boy,
Frankenstein-style. But can she make him love her?

This book
for me, takes on an episode of Sabrina the Teenage Witch and gives it a fresh
new turn as we see two girls bond over a guy – but not in the way you’d expect.

Enter
Camille. Walking along, slightly irritable. Walking past a graveyard at night.
Spots a girl digging up the ground. Decides to join her. Normal, right? On the
other side, enter Zoe – digging the grave and flinging sarcastic comments at
Camille when she happens to stumble past.

But
instead of a freak-a-thon, we’re instead treated to a new kind of friendship
that develops between Camille, and Zoe (the gravedigger, by the way). Bonding
over making the “perfect” guy, we see them take on their own adventure, filled
with laughs and fun – which makes you smile like a crazy, hare-brained reader
while looking at your pages.

Camille
somewhat embodies what it feels like to have no friends, feeling somewhat alone
but finding a kindling friendship in the most unexpected of places, with some unexpected
person – which makes it all the more amazing.

Instead
of being cringed by a gore-filled book, we are treated to Skuse to a fun, light
hearted, friendship and fun filled book. Nothing too serious but good enough to
make you laugh – just what the doctor ordered for cold Winter days.

'It was the most amazing thing
I had ever seen since I'd been alive. It beat all magic tricks I'd ever seen
and all the cartwheels I'd ever done and finding a dead woman. Anyway, it was
truly awesies.'